Brief: Long Live Guru Jagat (w/Emily Guerin)
Katie Griggs. Katie Day. Kundalini Katie. Guru Jagat. We hardly knew you. The late "Queen of Conspiracy Theories" is now memorialized on NPR through Emily Guerin's LAist podcast "Imperfect Paradise." ...
31 Jan 202338min
Bonus Sample: Psychotherapy in the Age of TikTok Conspirituality (w/Alessia Caputo)
What do you do when your psychotherapy clients suffer from conspiracy theory anxiety? What do you do when the conspirituality-based therapy advice they get from TikTok is compelling, but also mislead...
30 Jan 20235min
138: The Magical Quantum Healy Machine (feat/Mallory DeMille)
Using a combination of Alexa, Siri, and your extensive search history, we've been able to scan your bio energetic field, and are sending personalized quantum rebalancing and immune-boosting frequencie...
26 Jan 20231h 5min
Brief: Tate Crime
Did the Matrix kidnap Top G? Or is Andrew Tate the Matrix himself, now unplugged and shorting out in a Romanian jail? While his self-confessed crimes against women come home to roost, the online spect...
24 Jan 202328min
Bonus Sample: RUSSELL BRAND: RUSSIAN PSY-OP OR MISINFORMED RESEARCHER?
Ok, the title is a bit outlandish, but for a reason: many of Russell Brand's Rumble videos feature titles like "HERE WE GO" and "THE FALL OF FAUCI." When everything is at volume 11, nothing seems to m...
23 Jan 20235min
137: Addiction & The Wounded Influencer (w/Chris Boutte)
Perhaps you’ve seen the Rumi quote repeated on social media memes: “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” The wounded healer is a popular archetype in wellness spaces, and indeed, someti...
19 Jan 20231h 12min
Bonus Sample: Matt Taibbi's Brand Building
In part two of Derek and Julian's deconstruction of the Russell Brand/Matt Taibbi Twitter Files Rumble Session, Matt and Russell swoon over their interactions with Elon Musk, discuss how the MSM unfai...
16 Jan 20237min
Brief: Teal Swan’s Satanic Panic to Anti-Woke Pipeline
How do the screams of the Satanic Panic echo in anti-woke politics? This past week, New Age Satanic Panic influencer Teal Swan released a new video to 1.5M YouTube subscribers about the dangers of "Wo...
14 Jan 202329min
